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It doesn't, but competing with OpenAI does. Google likes their ducks in a row. Google Search and YouTube are prime examples; every interaction is subsidized wi
by smoldesu 3y ago
It doesn't, but competing with OpenAI does.
Google likes their ducks in a row. Google Search and YouTube are prime examples; every interaction is subsidized with an advertisement. It's not hard to look at a series of screenshots from either service and circle the spot where your attention was monetized. With ChatGPT, that is not possible. Worse yet, the infrastructure costs of providing GPT-3 scale models for free is massive. It's being subsidized by API and premium subscription profits, which is even more baffling since only a few of the ChatGPT users will become paying customers with their current offerings.
So, Google is apprehensive to release a competitor. It's not hard to imagine FAANG having "GPT-4 killers" in their labs, but engineering a way to make it all profitable is the hard part.